Age of Product’s Food for Thought of May 15th, 2016 covers the Kodak moment, failing to innovate and its tragic consequences, how great teams build great products, why empathy is essential for product success, how to employ JTBD in the right manner, and encourages to download a free UX research methodology guide.

We also explore how to get the right candidates for user tests, whether scaling agile with SAFe is an evil thing, that radical transparency is key to agile success, what agile KPIs need to be tracked, and what communication skills make you a good leader.

Last, but least, we learn about 12 innovation imperatives, why blockchain unbundles trust, and that less probably is not always more.

Product, Lean & the Kodak Moment

Melissa Perri: Avoiding Innovation: Lessons from Kodak

Melissa with the insider story on the Kodak moment: How Kodak failed to innovate despite being presented with all the options and having every technology available to become a digital photography disruptor.

Evangelos of Synapse Partners on how large companies – using the case of IBM and Watson/ AI —can and should use Silicon Valley (and other innovation clusters) to utilize startup-driven innovation, and to keep up with and address disruption in their industries.

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Khalid Halim (via First Round Capital): The Science of Speaking is the Art of Being Heard

Khalid, cofounder of Reboot.io, on communication as a leadership skill in general, and on how it is influenced by the central component of a human’s operating system — the reptilian brain — in particular.

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Stefan Wolpers

Stefan — based in Berlin, Germany — has been working for 12+ years as agile coach, ScrumMaster and Product Owner. He is an XSCALE Alliance XBA Coach (XBAC) as well as a member of Scrum Alliance (CSP, CSPO, CSM). He is also a certified LeSS practitioner (CLP). He has developed B2C as well as B2B software, mainly for startups, including a former Google subsidiary.